Coachella has announced its dates for 2025, as well as how to get advance tickets – find out more below. READ MORE: Coachella 2024: surprises, technical difficulties and a distinct lack of vibes Fresh off the second weekend of Coachella 2024, the festival took to social media to reveal the dates for 2025, which will take place across the weekends of April 11 to April 13 and April 18 to April 20 at the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California. Like past iterations of the festival, both weekends are expected to share the same line-up, with the exception of a small number of acts. Advance sa ..read more

ADOR CEO Min Hee-jin has accused South Korean entertainment giant HYBE of “undermining” the success of K-pop girl group NewJeans by creating a copycat version of the quintet. READ MORE: Ryu Da-in on ‘Pyramid Game’: “School violence cannot be justified” On Monday night (April 22), ADOR CEO Min Hee-jin accused HYBE, which owns the majority of the K-pop agency, of trying to “undermine” the success of its girl group NewJeans. The music executive’s statement came shortly after news broke that Min and HYBE were in a power struggle over ADOR. In her statement, the ADOR CEO accused HYBE of copying ..read more

K-pop girl group aespa have announced their upcoming 2024 ‘SYNK: Parallel Line’ world tour, featuring concerts in Asia, Australia and more. READ MORE: The 25 best K-pop songs of 2023 On February 19, the K-pop girl group announced their new tour, titled ‘SYNK: Parallel Line’, on their official Weverse artist page. aespa’s 2024 tour currently features 19 concerts across 13 different cities in Asia and Australia from June to September 2024. The tour will kick off at the end of June with a two-night concert in Seoul, South Korea. In July, the girl group will head on the Japanese leg of the tour ..read more

K-pop boyband ATEEZ have announced the North American leg of their 2024 to 2025 ‘Towards the Light: Will to Power’ world tour, featuring concerts in New York, California and more. READ MORE: Ryu Da-in on ‘Pyramid Game’: “School violence cannot be justified” Today (April 23), ATEEZ announced 10 brand-new cities for their upcoming 2024 to 2025 ‘Towards the Light: Will to Power’ world tour in North America, which will take place this July and August. The tour will kick-off on July 14 at the Tacoma Dome in Tacoma, Washington. In the same month, the K-pop boyband will also play shows in the US s ..read more

Childish Gambino a.k.a Donald Glover has previewed new music with Kanye West and Kid Cudi on social media. READ MORE: Childish Gambino – ‘3.15.20’ review: rap’s Renaissance man lets guard down with most personal record to date The rapper, actor, writer and comedian took to Instagram Live for the latest edition of his GILGA Radio show, during which he previewed two new tracks, one featuring Kanye West, and the other featuring Kid Cudi. On the first untitled track, Kanye raps about wanting to record a follow-up to 2011’s ‘Watch The Throne’ with Jay-Z. Kanye raps: “N****s waiting on The Throne ..read more

Garbage‘s Shirley Manson has opened up on the “devastating” time that their label once chose to invest in No Doubt over them. READ MORE: Garbage’s Shirley Manson: “We’re losing bands from working class beginnings and risk-takers” Manson sat down with NME to discuss the reissue of the band’s divisive 2005 album ‘Bleed Like Me’. “To be frank, I never had a particularly good relationship with that record until relatively recently,” Manson told NME. “We released it at a time of immense strife within the band, and dwindling interest from our record label and the general public.” She also opened ..read more

Interpol have added four extra European shows to their ‘Antics’ 20th-anniversary tour, which will take place later this year. READ MORE: Interpol on 20 years of ‘Antics’ and touring with The Cure: “It was another era”  The album, released in 2004, was the band’s second studio album and peaked at Number 15 on the Billboard 200 and at Number 21 in the UK Albums Chart. The album’s singles included indie disco staples ‘Slow Hands’, ‘Evil’, alongside fan favourites ‘C’mere’ and ‘Narc’. The record cemented the band’s success after the seminal debut ‘Turn On The Bright Lights’ and w ..read more

White Lies have announced a handful of intimate UK and European gigs in celebration of ‘Ritual’ and ‘BIG TV’. The band – comprised of Harry McVeigh, Charles Cave and Jack Lawrence-Brown – will head off on tour with two dates at each venue. The first date will see White Lies play ‘Ritual’ in its entirety. The second date will see them perform ‘BIG TV’ in its entirety. The tour will kick off at TivoliVredenburg in Utrecht, Netherlands on June 17 and June 18. From there, the band will make stops in Bruges, Belgium, and Manchester. The tour will wrap up with two shows at Lafayette in London on Ju ..read more

Green Day offered a taster for their upcoming ‘Saviors’ world tour by playing their seminal albums ‘Dookie’ and ‘American Idiot’ in full at an intimate club show in Los Angeles. READ MORE: Green Day – ‘Saviors’ review: their best work since ‘American Idiot’ The trio played both albums, as they are set to do on their forthcoming stadium tour, at the Echoplex in LA on Thursday (April 18). Their mammoth 35-song set also included songs from their recent album, which came out in January, as well as a surprise encore of ‘Minority’ and new cut ‘Fancy Sauce’ which wasn’t listed on the printed setli ..read more

Taylor Swift has shared a ‘From The Desk Of’ letter which has been given away as part of Record Store Day 2024. READ MORE: Taylor Swift – ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ review: a rare misstep The pop star created the note as a special gift for this year’s Record Store Day (RSD), being made available alongside the purchase of her 11th studio album ‘The Tortured Poets Department’. “Happy Record Store Day! Thank you from the bottom of my heart for welcoming ‘The Tortured Poets Department’ into your vinyl collection and your life,” began the note. “It’s my goal to create a memento you’ll want ..read more